J. B. Hunt: The Long Haul to Success

by Marvin Schwartz

Overview

In J. B. Hunt: The Long Haul to Success, Marvin Schwartz chronicles the remarkable achievements of Johnnie Bryan Hunt, a man who, in Schwartz’s words, “embodies the American rags-to-riches fable in its most engaging personification.” Hunt’s corporate strategies, entrepreneurism, and spiritual convictions come to light in this account of a small Arkansas business that grew to become the largest trucking company in the nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682261415
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	583,629
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Marvin Schwartz is the author of We Wanna Boogie: The Rockabilly Roots of Sonny Burgess and the Pacersand Tyson: From Farm to Market. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 

Editorial Reviews

In a banal tribute, Schwartz ( In Service to America ) spins an American success story: with hard work, a devoted wife and an eye on the Bible, Johnnie Bryan Hunt, a Depression-era Baptist sharecropper, has parlayed a rice-hull poultry-litter business into a 5000-unit national tractor-trailer network employing 7000 drivers (who all get home for Christmas) and grossing some $600 million per annum. Reagan-era Interstate Commerce Commission deregulation caused problems for some truckers (accidents increased 29%) but Hunt found opportunity in the new availability of routes, customer access and free-market rates. Today, as a ``core carrier'' for Ford Motor, Champion Paper, General Foods et al., this Forbes 400 company's 65-year-old owner/executive still preaches dress-code morality to new employees (``I want to make millionaires of 100 employees before I turn 75'') and looks forward to becoming ``a major provider of transportation services in a global arena.'' (July)

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